veader · September 12, 2013 15:10 · Sep 12, 2013
diff --git a/gistfile1.js b/gistfile1.js
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+// these are the routes I'd like to define
+//
+// /posts               (load all posts)
+// /posts/all           (only here for completeness)
+// /posts/archived      (load only archived posts)
+// /posts/unpublished   (load only unpublished posts)
+// /posts/1             (load individual post)
+
+// the only way I can see doing it in Ember at this point (1.0)
+App.Router.map({
+  this.resource('posts', function () {
+    this.route('archived', { path: '/archived' });
+    this.route('unpublished', { path: '/unpublished' });
+    this.resource('post', { path: '/:post_id' });
+  });
+});
+
+// this involves a lot of junk code and is still tricky to have the App.PostsController 
+// being the one fetching and the 'posts' template doing the rendering.
+
+// what I'd love to see is something like this
+App.Route.map({
+  this.resource('posts'
+                , { path: '/:filter', allow_blank: true, values: 'all archived unpublished'.w()}
+                , function () {
+    this.resource('post', { path: '/:post_id'})
+  })
+});
+
+// I'm still digging into the Router code to see if this is even possible.
+// Am I working at this problem the wrong way? Any help would be appreciated.